Brick or combined brick and tile.



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D. W. ANDERSON.

BRICK 0R COMBINED BRICK AND TILE.

(Application 'fl1 ed Feb. 6, 1901.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DAVID WILEY ANDERSON, OF RICHMOND, VIRGINIA.

BRICK OR COMBINED BRICK AND TILE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters'Patent No. 687,104, dated November 19, 1901.

Application filed February 6,1901. Serial No. 46,211. (No model.)

T0 aZl whom it mag concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID WILEY ANDER- SON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Richmond, in the county of Henricoand State of Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Brick and Tile; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to improvements in combined brick and tile-facin gs for walls and analogous structures, such as ceilings and or conduits having concave or channeled bot toms to provide escape for condensation of moisture; third, to provide a combined brick and tile-facing for walls provided withv grooves or notches constituting guide-marks for readily fixing the position of the brick or body in the wall, and, fourth, to provide a combined brick and tile-facing for walls having all the foregoing-mentioned improvements in features and constructions.

I have fully and clearly illustrated the improvements in the accompanying drawings to be taken as a part'hereof, and wherein- Figure 1 is a view in vertical section of a wall composed of bricks and combined bricks and tile-facings embodying my present improvements. Fig. 2 is a View showing in longitudinal arrangement a series of 00111- bined brick and tile-facings constituting in the arrangement a ceiling, the mortar being prevented from escaping at the ends. Fig. 3 is a view in vertical section of a double-v faced wall constructed of reversed combined brick and tile-'facings and embodying my im- .provements. Fig. 4 is a view showing the application of a double-faced and flanged combined brick and tile-facing as a support for a floor. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a brick suited fol-intermediate position between two combined brick and tile-facings as shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 6 illustrates the waste of mortar the invention remedies. Figs. 7 and 8 illustrate modified forms of the combined brick and facing-tile.

Referring to the drawings, A designates the body of a combined brick and tile-facing,

which may be of standard dimensions or of such dimensions as will best suit it to the uses intended. From the face of the body is formed at one or both ends a neck-piece 1 of such length and height as may be required, and on the end of the neck-piece is formed op positely-extending vertical tile-facing flanges 2. Through the body are formed longitudinal passages 3, communicating with each other by transversely-arranged passages 4, and also openings into an air-passage. 5 extending through the neck-piece 1, vertical passages 6 being formed in the neck-piece and intersecting the lateral passage 5. and tile-facing of this general construction and form serves all the purposes of making a wall which may be readily utilized for heating, ventilating, or cooling purposes, as indicated in the drawings; but in making up the wall it has been found that owing to the Weight of successive layers the soft mortar is forced from the bed, as indicated in Fig. 1 at 6, the protruding part being likely at once or on disintegration to drop down on the floor of the air-passage and in a measure impede the free passage of the currents of air traversing the passage. To obviate this to the extent of preventing the exudation of the mortar,l form the body of the brick and tile-facing with a flange 8, extending across its edge face, as shown, and at the lower face with a recess or groove 9, so that in laying the wall the recess and flange of contiguous bodies will interengage A combined brick.

and form a lock or keeper, preventing the escape of any of the mortar. To insure relief from expansion of the stratum mortar, there may be formed in the face of the body a mortarrelief groove 10, into which the excess of mortar is pressed, as shown in the drawings. It is apparent that in the use of combined brick and tile facings in double-faced walls and partitions the body is formed with flanges and recesses at both ends, as shown in Fig. 3.

In the construction of walls of the character to which these structural pieces are adapted the position of the parts in the wall can be readily and expeditiously ascertained and determined by forming a groove 12 across the face of the body-at that point or line which corresponds to the face-line of the main structure, as indicated in the drawings. (See Figs. 7 and 8.) In forming a wall of this character hollow bricks B may be placed between the combined brick and tile, and these bricks may be provided with air-passages similar to those I11 Figs. 7 and 8 instead of forming the eontiguous layers of brick and tiles with the interengaging flanges and recesses the mortarfaces of the combined brick and tile-facings are dished out, as at 14, and the intermediate bricks 15 have plane faces. This construction and arrangement serve to confine the mortar with reasonable certainty. The body portion of the combined brick and tile may also be provided with funnel-shaped openings, such as shown at 16, or formed with recesses in the upper and lower faces thereof, thus permitting some of the mortar to enter such recesses andprevent its being compressed or forced into the air-conduits. It will also be understood that the intermediate bricks may be dished out or recessed to receive the mortar, and thus assist in preventing an overflow of the mortar into the airconduits.

It is apparent that as circumstances or conditions of the structure may require the brick portions of the tile may be provided with the flanges and recesses arranged opposite atthe sides or in other edge relation to suit the mortar connections, as indicated in Fig. 2 of the drawings, or the brick portions may have two flanges and opposite recesses, as shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings. It is also apparent that the flange-and-recess construction may be made applied to the brick, as shown in Fig. 5 of the drawings, which bricks may be utilized in building walls or utilized as intermediate layers in the construction of ventilated walls in connection with combined brick and facing tiles, as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings.

In my application for Letters Patent filed December 4, 1900, Serial No. 38,605, I have disclosed a combined brick and tile of an analogous character to the one illustrated in this application; but I do not Wish to claim in this application any of the subject-matter covered by the claims in that application.

What I claim is 1. A combined brick and facing-tile, the brick portion of which is formed with a projection on one edge and a recess on its lower face.

2. A combined brick and facing-tile having an integral neck-piece, the brick portion be in g formed with an upwardly-extending flange on one edge and a recess in its opposite edge adjacent to the neck-piece.

3. A combined brick and facing-tile having an integral neck-piece,havin g airpassages therethrough, the brick portion being formed with an upwardly-extending flange on one edge and a recess in its opposite edge, adjacent to the neck-piece, substantially as described.

4. A combined brick and facing-tile and an integral connection between them, said integral connection having perforations therethrough constituting air-passages, and the 9 brick portion being formed with a vertical flange across one edge and a recess across the opposite edge, adjacent to the integral connection, substantially as described.

5. A combined brick and facing-tile connected together by an integral portion, the brick portion being formed with a vertical flange extending across the front upper edge anda recess extending across the lower front edge, and the integral connecting portion provided with vertical air-passages,substan t ially as described.

6. A combined brick and facing-tile, the tile portion being connected to the brick p01 tion by an integral perforated portion, the said tile having a projected portion arranged at right angles to the brick portion, and the brick portion being formed with a Vertical flange across its front upper edge and a recess across its lower front edge, substantially as described.

7. A combined brick and facing-tile with a perforated integral connection between the brick and tile portions, the tile portion being arranged at a suitable distance from the brick portion to form an air-space between the said portions, and the brick portion having a vertical flange across its upper front edge and a recess in its lower front edge, substantially as described.

8. A combined brick and facing-tile with a perforated integral connection between the brick and the tile portions having vertical perforations therethrough and a concave surface across its upper face, and the tile portion being arranged at a suitable distance from the brick portion to form an air-space between the said portions, substantially as described.

9. A combined brick and facing-tile having a hollow brick p'ortion formed with a vertical flange across its upper front edge and a recess across its lower front edge, and a tile portion integrally connected to the brick portion by a perforated neck-piece having a concaved upper surface, substantially as described.

10. A combined brick and tile, the brick having one or more hollow portions, a vertical flange on one edge and a recess across the edge opposite thereto, one or more necks or webs integrally connecting the brick and tile portions, and said necks or webs having perforations therethrough.

11. A combined brick and facing-tile comprising a body having passages therethrough, a vertical flange on one of its front edges and a recess in its edge opposite thereto, a concaved neck portion having communicating air-passages, and a vertically-flanged facingother, a neck portion having air-passages and a concaved upper surface, and the neck and body portions having communicating horizontal passages therethrough and the flanged facing-tile integral with the neck arranged vertically.

13. A brick and facing-tile combined, comprising a body portion to set with the wall and formed with a flange across one edge and a recess across the edge opposite thereto, a neck portion having a concave upper surface projected laterally from the body portion and terminating in upper and lower vertical flanges, and provided with horizontal and vertical. passages intersecting through the neck.

14. A combined brick and tile-facing for walls, consisting of a facing-tile, a neck-piece integral therewith and extending therefrom, and formed with intersecting air-passages therethrough, and a body part adapted to set within a wall and formed with a vertical flange across one edge and a recess across the opposite edge, adapted to interengage with coincident recess and flange of companion pieces, substantially as described.

15. A combined brick and tile-facing for walls, consisting of a facing-tile, a neck-piece integral therewith and extending therefrom and formed with intersecting air-passages therethrough, and a concave channel across its face, and a body part adapted to set within a wall and formed with a vertical flange across one edge and a recess across the opposite edge, adapted to interengage with coincident flange and recess of companion pieces, substantially as described.

17. A combined brickand tile-facing for walls, consisting of a facing-tile extending vertically in both directions beyond its support, a supporting neck-piece extending at right angles to the facing-tile and integral therewith, and having a concave channel across its face and intersecting air-passages, and a body part adapted to set within a wall and formed with a vertical flange across one edge adjacent to the neck-piece, a recess similarlylocated across the opposite edge, adapted to interengage with coincident recess and flange of companion pieces,'amortar-relief groove across the face of the body, and a position-groove to indicate the position of the device in the wall, substantially as described.

18. In a wall, the combination of combined bricks and facing-tiles, each comprising. a body having openings communicating horizontally throughout the lines of layers, said body being formed at its forward upper and lower edges respectively with a vertical flange and a recess to interengage with contiguous elements of the wall, a neck portion projecting horizontally from the body and having intersecting horizontal and vertical air-passages therethrough and concave channels inthe surface of the neck, and facing-tiles integral with the neck portions and having their ends and sides contiguous to each other, substantially as described.

19. A wall composed of reversible combine brick and tile-facings, each composed of a body part constituting the structure, neckpieces projecting from the body parts, and tile-facings integral with the neck-pieces, and formed with upwardly and downwardly extending flanges, whereby when the body portions are reversed in the wall in alternation, the tile-facings present a continuous facing on both sides of the wall, substantially as described.

20. A wall composed of reversible combined brick and tile-facings comprising a body part constituting the supporting-wall of the struc ture, neck-pieces projecting from the body parts and provided with intersecting air-passages therethrough, and tile-facings integral with the neck-pieces and formed with upwardly and downwardly extending flanges, whereby when the body portions are reversed in the wall in alternation, the tile-facings present a continuous facing on both sides of the wall, and air-passages are formed which traverse both sides of the wall throughout the In testimony whereof I aflix my signature area, substantially as described. in resence of two witnesses.

21. A combined brick and facing-tile havi in g an integral connection between them, and DAVID WILEY ANDERSON 5 the brick portion formed with oppositely-'dis- Witnesses: I

posed flanges and recesses opposite to the R. B. FELTHAUS, flanges, substantially as described.

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